r/SegaCD

Hi,

I am having real issues trying to desolder the bios chip on this model 1 sega mega cd pcb.... No matter what i try I cant get some of the holes to clear and are super stubborn... especially this last middle pin no matter what I try! I know this board has a thick ground plane but wow.

My desoldering iron is set to 480c, ive tried loads of flux, fresh leaded solder, desolder wick, using hot air etc its just sucking up all the heat and doesnt melt and wont clear.. and its now making me quite frustrated and angry!

How in the hell can I shift this bastard? I dont know how the board isnt actually taking more damage.

Do I need to upgrade my desoldering station?

Oh soldering gods help me!

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Hello, I am currently looking for a Model 1 Sega CD, but was wondering what would be considered a good price for one? I see most of them being over $250 lately.

I bought a Sega CD Model 2 to play Sonic CD and use it as a CD player, but I noticed something when I put in a game and wanted to listen to the music from that game. By pressing start on the home screen, I went to the game and not to the menu.

I’m going to describe this problem as best as i can so bare with me. I have a North American Sega CD model 2 and a model 1 Sega Genesis and currently, i don’t have any games for it. So about 2 weeks ago, i got an external optical drive and some Verbatim CD-Rs on Amazon, hooked the drive up to my laptop and went digging for Sonic CD ROMs. I ended up finding one on CoolRom.Com. I downloaded it, extracted the .iso and MP3 tracks from WinRar and went to ImgBurn to burn the game. But after the burning was completed, i booted up the game on my Sega CD to play it, i was greeted with no sound except for the past tracks for all zones due to those being data tracks instead of dependent RedBook audio tracks, and obviously the sound effects. Ever since then i’ve tried numerous times to get the audio to play but nothing has been working. Does anybody know if this is a hardware issue or it’s something about the way i’m burning the CDs? i’ve already checked if the Sega CD has region locking on it and it does not. So, could someone please help me out?

Im posting as I was in this situation once and had to return to an ebay seller a reproduction artwork case from etsy. What you are looking for is a cut off on the right side of the manual. Two major differences.

1. AUTHENTIC The paper of the manual internal pages will be smooth like any other sega cd manual and the real manual will contain on the right side the additional hump of artwork circled in this photo if its authentic.

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Cons are buying up on etsy at $10-$70 repro cases and artwork and then selling for $300 to $700 on ebay everything but the disk. Be careful of repro junk mixing in the authentic.

Lower left Sega Seal will have a pinkish copied blot on the gold seal itself.

Your Welcome. Be careful out there.

Running Darkark on R36S original , doesn’t want to play/start any sega CD games . How do I get this to work ?

It will show all the games , tries to start it twice and then goes back to the game list ?

Any idea how I can fix this ?

Any help would be appreciated .